Building the Political Will to End Hunger in Washington

Northwest Harvest advocates for state and federal policies to increase access to food, housing, health care, and economic stability. Ending hunger for good means eradicating its root cause—poverty. To this end, we advocate for public policies that:

1. Promote Access to Nutritious Food: Northwest Harvest advocates, educates, and organizes for access to nutritious food. This includes protecting and strengthening nutrition assistance programs, such as SNAP, nutritious school meals, and WIC.
   
2. Help People Meet their Basic Needs: We support efforts to protect and strengthen programs that help people meet their basic needs for income, housing, and health care, so that families can afford to spend more of their income on food, reducing chronic hunger. 
   
3. Support Budgets that Restore a Basic Safety Net: Northwest Harvest supports sustainable federal, state, and local sources of revenue to ensure that social safety net programs are sufficiently funded.Budget cuts to SNAP and other programs which are a lifeline to those who use them threaten to increase hunger, poverty, and poor health across our communities.